An ABC article ‘COVID-19 won’t kill the office but people will need reasons not to work from home’ Rachel Pupazzoni states that at least half of office workers want the flexibility of working from home and offices of the future will have more collaborative space and fewer individual desks.

• EY surveyed 4,500 of its employees across Oceania – 48% want their homes to be a feature of the future office.
• Boston Consulting Group surveyed 12,000 of its employees and found 60 per cent want to choose where and when they work.
• Adecco’s survey showed 75 per cent of workers want that flexibility.

I was talking to an IT Manager at a local council this week and he said that Covid had done 5 years of technology innovation overnight. We are definitely in the middle of a workplace revolution! The challenges are that we have more online communication to respond to and organise and still have a desire for face to face contact, the opportunities are that we can be more flexible to the needs of every employee, commute less and we can get more focused work done in remote locations.

Is the office dead? No. But it will be re imagined and most likely a smaller space due to more remote work, with less individual desks and more collaborative spaces.